Man Arrested for Refusing to Leave Jail

MONROE, La. – Eddie Woodruff had no place to go on Thanksgiving, so he went to jail.

An arrest affidavit says the 32-year-old Monroe man was dropped off around 2:30 a.m. at an Ouachita Correctional Center guard shack by a woman in a car who then drove away. He was arrested and booked with criminal trespass after saying he had no place to go and allegedly refusing repeated requests to leave.